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The Murder of Cara Knott

by Jessi Dilmont

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A killing that reshaped a San Diego landmark

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A killing that reshaped a San Diego landmark

Jessi Dilmont’s account centers on the 1986 murder of Cara Knott, a 20-year-old San Diego State student, and the arrest that followed: California Highway Patrol officer Craig Peyer, who had stopped her as she drove home, was charged with her killing. The description connects the case to a lasting feature of the city’s landscape: the Knott Memorial Bridge sign near Mercy Road on Interstate 15. That link between a crime, its investigation, and a public memorial gives the book a clear local focus, while placing Knott’s interrupted college life at the heart of the account.

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  • Readers interested in true-crime accounts of murder investigations and arrests.
  • Readers seeking a case rooted in San Diego history and place.

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True crimeMurder investigationPublic memory and memorialsSan Diego

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Book overview

Three decades after a murder that shook the city of San Diego to its core, residents and visitors are still reminded of the tragic slaying each time they drive down Interstate 15. Near Mercy Road, where 20 year old San Diego State junior Cara Knott was killed in 1986, hangs a sign that reads "Knott Memorial Bridge." The killing was difficult enough for the community to swallow - a young, beautiful woman, full of potential, never even lives to see her college graduation. But what made the murder even more horrifying was the arrest that soon followed. California Highway Patrol officer Craig Peyer, who had pulled the student over as she'd been driving home, was charged with killing Cara Knott.

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